10. THE WAR INEVITABLE, MARCH, 1775.-Patrick Henry.

They tell us, sir, that we are weak, — unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disármed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and ináction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual | resistance by lying supínely on our

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shall have bound us | hand | and foót? Sír, we are not weak, if we make a proper | use | of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power.

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the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no elèction. If we were

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base enough to desîre it, it is now too | late to retìre from the contest. There is no retreat but in submìssion and slàvery! Our chains are iLo forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The

war is inevitable; and let it còme! I repeat it, sir, let it còme!

It is in vain, sir, to exténuate the matter. Gentlemen may crý,

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peace, peace! — but there is | nò peace. The war is actually begùn! The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears the

clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field!

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Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What

would they have? Is life | so | déar | or peace | so | sweet | as to

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be purchased at the price of cháins | and slavery? Forbid it,

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11. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.- Supposed Speech of John Adams, in the Continental Congress, July, 1776.-Daniel Webster.

Sink or swim, live or diè, survíve or pèrish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote! It is true, indeed, that, in the beginning, we aimed not at independence. But there is a Divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately

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strengthen us. It will give us

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will create nàvies. The people,- the people, if we are true to

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anew the breath of life. Read this declaration at the head of the waist

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emn vow | uttered, to maintain it, or to perish on the bed of honor.

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of religious liberty will cling | round it, resolved to stand | with it,

or fall with it. Send it to the public hálls; proclaim it three; let

them | hear it who heard the first | roar of the enemy's | cannon,-let

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of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Léxington and Concord,- and

the very walls will cry out in its support!

Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs; but I see | clearly | through this day's bùsiness. You and I, indeed, may rûe it. We may not live to see the time when this declaration shall be

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ignominiously, and on the scaffold! Be it so! be it so! If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacri

fice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a

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country, or, at least, the hope of a country, and that a free country. But, whatever may be our fate, be assured that this declaration will stand. It may cost treasure, and it may cost blood; but it will slowly lift stand, and it will richly compensate for both. Through the thick |

gloom of the present I see the brightness of the fùture, as the sùn

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We shall make this a glòrious, an immortal day.

When we are in our graves, our children will honor it. They will

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distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sír, before God, I believe the hour is come! My judgment appróves this meas

it; and I leave óff, as I begần, that, live or dìe, survive or pèrish, 1

am for the declaration! It is my living | sentiment, | and, by the

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12. NORTHERN LABORERS.-C. Naylor.

(0) The gentleman has misconceived the spirit and tendency of northern | institutions. He is ignorant of northern | character. He has forgotten the history | of his country. Preach | insurrection

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history of your country is their history. The renown of your coun

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(AO) Who was he that disarmed | the thunderer; wrested from change to hf C

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his grasp the bolts | of Jove; calmed the troubled | òcean; became

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his brightness and effulgence on the whole | civilized | wòrld; parti

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of whose wisdom will be felt to the last | moment | of "recorded

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tallow-chandler's son, a printer's runaway | boy!

And whó, let me ask the honorable gentleman, who was hé that, in the days of our Revolution, led forth a northern | ármy,—yes, an

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invaders? Who was he? (0) A northern | laborer, a Rhode Island

blacksmith, the gallant General Grèene,—(AO) who left his hammer

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and his forge, and went forth conquering and to conquer in the

battle for our independence! (0) And will you preach insurrection to

Our country is fùll of the achievements of northern laborers! Where are Concord, and Lexington, and Princeton, and Trenton,

and Saratoga, and Bunker Hill, but in the north? And what has

shed an imperishable renòwn | on the never-dying names of those hallowed spots but the (40) blood and the struggles, the high | dáring

and pátriotism, and sublime | cóurage of northern | laborers? (0)

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The whole | nòrth is an everlasting | mònument of the freedom, vir

tue, intelligence, and indomitable independence of northern laborers!

Go, preach insurrection to men like thèse!

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pay, shelterless, shoeless, penniless, and almost naked, in that

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men? (0) Why, northern làborers!

13. THE AMERICAN SAILOR.-R. F. Stockton.

Look to your history,- that part of it which the world. knows by heart,- and you will find on its brightest page the glorious achievements of the American sailor. Whatever his country has done to disgrace him, and break his spirit, he has never disgraced her; he has always been ready